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* macvtap: add GSO/csum offload supportArnd Bergmann2010-02-181-24/+182
| | | | | | | | | | | | Added flags field to macvtap_queue to enable/disable processing of virtio_net_hdr via IFF_VNET_HDR. This flag is checked to prepend virtio_net_hdr in the receive path and process/skip virtio_net_hdr in the send path. Original patch by Sridhar, further changes by Arnd. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net/macvtap: add vhost supportArnd Bergmann2010-02-181-21/+77
| | | | | | | | | | | | This adds support for passing a macvtap file descriptor into vhost-net, much like we already do for tun/tap. Most of the new code is taken from the respective patch in the tun driver and may get consolidated in the future. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* macvtap: rework object lifetime rulesArnd Bergmann2010-02-181-92/+91
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reworks the change done by the previous patch in a more complete way. The original macvtap code has a number of problems resulting from the use of RCU for protecting the access to struct macvtap_queue from open files. This includes - need for GFP_ATOMIC allocations for skbs - potential deadlocks when copy_*_user sleeps - inability to work with vhost-net Changing the lifetime of macvtap_queue to always depend on the open file solves all these. The RCU reference simply moves one step down to the reference on the macvlan_dev, which we only need for nonblocking operations. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net/macvtap: fix reference countingArnd Bergmann2010-02-161-13/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The RCU usage in the original code was broken because there are cases where we possibly sleep with rcu_read_lock held. As a fix, change the macvtap_file_get_queue to get a reference on the socket and the netdev instead of taking the full rcu_read_lock. Also, change macvtap_file_get_queue failure case to not require a subsequent macvtap_file_put_queue, as pointed out by Ed Swierk. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* net: macvtap driverArnd Bergmann2010-02-041-0/+581
In order to use macvlan with qemu and other tools that require a tap file descriptor, the macvtap driver adds a small backend with a character device with the same interface as the tun driver, with a minimum set of features. Macvtap interfaces are created in the same way as macvlan interfaces using ip link, but the netif is just used as a handle for configuration and accounting, while the data goes through the chardev. Each macvtap interface has its own character device, simplifying permission management significantly over the generic tun/tap driver. Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>